How a Glob of Fat the Size of a School Bus Got Stuck in the London Sewers

For a vivid, smelly lesson on why we don’t pour bacon grease down the drain, behold the fatberg.

Last week, officials at Thames Water removed a 30,000-pound lump of lard from a trunk line sewer beneath the London suburb of Kingston. It was the fattest fatberg ever recovered from the London sewers, and by extension, probably the largest subterranean grease clump in U.K. history.